tag: performance per watt

There has been an ongoing discussion in the industry about the importance of power and performance and which is more important. I submit that the real question is: How much performance can be squeezed out of the power budget for any given market segment?
Figure 1. Processor Market Segment Power Budgets
Figure 1 shows a rough breakdown of the different market segments for processors, alo... » read more

By Ann Steffora Mutschler
Semiconductor engineering teams always have focused on stepping up performance in new designs, but in the mobile, GPU and tablet markets they’re finding that maintaining the balance between higher performance and the same or lower power is increasingly onerous. The reason: Extreme gaming applications can create scenario files that cause dynamic power consumpt... » read more